Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756637AbYJGDmx (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:42:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753450AbYJGDmp (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:42:45 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.246]:6163 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753012AbYJGDmo (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:42:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=eFyHgeBSHFntGJIjQjL9WfHFuYzZmERE3VqGCwoQieHsG98HICF0LPCRGhdK4IaAUY 7JxDCiL3EYfUIr5zDBuJDa4blXJjMzp2MHVV6xeldMoNKiu9JaMJ0jMLORoEotpRWqxe 76QkM4oqM6x/ZEUZlBGyWY119NdRILEIg6FX0= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:42:35 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Andreas Herrmann Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions Message-ID: <20081007034230.GA6095@amd.corenet.prv> References: <20081005183603.GA3263@amd.corenet.prv> <20081005121046.579089b9@infradead.org> <20081006062838.GC2808@amd.corenet.prv> <20081006195350.GB22097@alberich.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081006195350.GB22097@alberich.amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1812 Lines: 46 On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:28:39AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:10:46PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 14:36:25 -0400 > > > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Lats night I loaded 2.6.27-rc8-tip for the first time on my AMD Turion > > > > 64 laptop that is normally runs with Fedora distribution kernel. > > > > Compared to 2.6.25 the thing is broken - hdparm reports about 3MB/sec > > > > speed, fans are constantly on, everything seems sluggish. > > > > > > > > Booting with hpet=force (HPET is disabled in BIOS) hangs the box > > > > somewhere in tty_init. > > > > > > hpet=force is a "the kernel thinks it's not wise to use, but you think > > > better"... don't do that ;( > > > > > > > That is not how I parse dmesg: > > > > [ 0.077927] HPET not enabled in BIOS. You might try hpet=force boot > > option > > > > Here kernel recommends to try and enable it. If we generally don't recommed > > using 'force' I'd suggest removing the 2nd sentence from the message. > > FYI. > Commit e7250b8ae3870f37f660c2f65cafcaba85e3bfd3 of tip/master is > needed to really enable hpet on SB400. I guess that patch should go > upstream asap -- and probably it's a good idea to add a check for timer > interrupt routing as well which could solve the issues on HP nx6xxx > laptops. > Having trouble locating this one. Could you please send me a patch so I can try it here? Thanks! -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/